This Monday morning classic is credited to a “Christopher”, which is the code name for Prince! He wrote the song in 1984, and originally recorded it as a duet with the band Apollonia 6 before pulling it off their record. He offered it to the Bangles, allegedly so that lead singer Susanna Hoffs would sleep with him.

11. You Know It As: “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye

But It’s Actually…

This song got passed around at Motown quite a bit before record head Berry Gordy got what he was after. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles recorded a version first in 1966, but it was rejected. Then Marvin Gaye gave it a shot and was also shot down. Finally Gladys Knight and the Pips got the all-clear, giving them a number 2 in 1967. Gaye’s version was relegated to an album cut a year later, but when DJs started to play it, it gave the label no choice but to release it as a single. It stayed at number one for seven weeks and became Motown’s biggest hit up to that point.

10. You Know It As: “Midnight Train To Georgia” by Gladys Knight and the Pips

There’s something about Georgia! It turns out that the official song of the Peach State is actually a cover of a tune by Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra cut way back in 1930 -thirty years before Ray got to it. For a time, there was some debate over whether the lyrics referred to a woman or the state, but according to Carmichael’s memoirs, his friend and bandleader Frankie Trumbauer told him “Why don’t you write a song called ‘Georgia’? Nobody lost much writing about the South.”